Welcome to Wrestling Inc.’s live coverage for “WWE Raw” on July 6, 2026, coming to you live from the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois!
Sami Zayn will be putting his Undisputed WWE Championship on the line as he defends against Cody Rhodes. With Zayn having dethroned Rhodes as Undisputed WWE Champion at WWE Night of Champions on June 27 in a Triple Threat Match that also involved GUNTHER, he secured himself a rematch when he defeated Jey Uso in a Number One Contenders Match during this past Friday’s episode of “WWE SmackDown”.
Sol Ruca will be putting the Women’s Intercontinental Championship on the line for the first time on television since retaining against Lyra Valkyria on the June 8 episode of “Raw” as she defends against Judgment Day’s Raquel Rodriguez. Not only did Rodriguez emerge victorious against Maxxine Dupri on last Monday’s episode of “Raw”, but she also helped Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan blindside 2026 Queen of the Ring winner IYO SKY with an attack alongside Roxanne Perez and aided JD McDonagh in taking out his WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event opponent Danhausen that same night.
Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins of The Street Profits will be putting the World Tag Team Championship on the line as they defend against The Vision’s Bron Breakker and Austin Theory. Breakker and Theory have been looking to gain back the World Tag Team Championship since Ford and Dawkins dethroned them as titleholders on the June 22 episode of “Raw” with some help from Joe Hendry and Seth Rollins, with The Vision members confronting The Street Profits last Monday as they joined Hendry for one of his performances.
Additionally, Oba Femi will be making an appearance as he prepares to take on Brock Lesnar in a Hell in a Cell Match at WWE SummerSlam. Seth Rollins also has something on his mind to share in the opening moments of tonight’s show before he challenges Roman Reigns for the World Heavyweight Championship at the August 1 and August 2 Premium Live Event.
We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping Sami Zayn winning the Undisputed WWE Championship at Night of Champions, as well as the Number One Contenders Match between Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso from this past Friday’s episode of “SmackDown”.
We then see Zayn pull up to the Allstate Arena and confront Rhodes as he tells him that he’s walking out of Chicago as the Undisputed WWE Champion. The two men get into a verbal confrontation, but GUNTHER blindsides Rhodes from behind and powerbombs him through a table. He tells Zayn that it’s a fluke he won the Undisputed WWE Championship and puts him on notice, then uses the car door to deliver a boot to the side of Rhodes’ head.
Michael Cole and Corey Graves then greet audiences at home as Seth Rollins makes his way to the ring.
We Hear From Seth Rollins
Rollins welcomes fans to Monday Night Rollins and introduces himself, then says he loves Allstate Arena before he addresses Roman Reigns and the World Heavyweight Championship. He says his business is continuing to own Reigns and says Reigns isn’t in Chicago, then says he either didn’t show up because it didn’t do anything for him to be in Chicago or the check wasn’t big enough.
Rollins says from day one, Reigns has been the chosen one. He says no one wants to hold Reigns accountable and says The Shield debut as a trio, but it was made abundantly clear that Reigns was the chosen one. He says Reigns was the guy who would be on the marquee whether or not he could cut a promo or wrestle well, then says that never sat right with him and points out a little boy in the front row. He points out a couple of other boys in the crowd and says he was that boy. He says he sat in the crowd wanting to be a wrestler, walk down the entrance ramp, hold a microphone, and wanting to main event WrestleManias. He says those were his dreams, then says watching those dreams be handed to Reigns broke something in him. He says every decision he made after that was in direct response to watching his dreams be handed off to somebody who didn’t deserve it, then says when he broke up The Shield and cashed in his Money In The Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 31, it was all to be close to Reigns.
Rollins says it occurred to him a couple of years back that changed everything for him when Reigns told him that he made ten times less than Rollins for ten times less the work. He says he was never in it for the money, then says Reigns has to beat him at SummerSlam to justify that he isn’t a fraud. He says he needs the win just as bad at SummerSlam and says he needs to prove to the five year old version of himself that he can still achieve greatness.
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